AKA: We Were There / There
We Were
Genre: Social, Melodrama,
Comedy, Romance
Episodes: 16
Broadcast period: 2007-Mar to
2007-May
Cast: Jang Hyuk, Gong Hyo
Jin, Seo Shin Ae, Shin Sung Rok and Choi Kang Hee.
Min Ki Seo (Jang Hyuk)
is an arrogant and cocky surgeon, who also is the son of a rich CEO. He lives
every day with only the goal of being the best, until he one day, gets told
that his girlfriend Ji Min (Choi Kang Hee) is sick. While visiting her, he
finds out that she has last stage cancer, and that she has agreed to accept her
fate, but this only furies Ki Seo who decides to take her back home to do the
surgery to save her. Unfortunately even he is not able to save her, and this
makes Ji Min decide to go to a small island called Blue Island. There she wants
to meet a little girl called Lee Bom (Seo Shin Ae), whom she by accident gave
HIV, by giving her infected blood. Guilt-ridden she wants to visit Bom and her
mother Lee Young Shin (Gong Hyo Jin), and apologize, but dies while riding with
Ki Seo.
Unable to get over Ji
Mins death, Ki Seo decides to quit his job as a doctor and decides to help his
mother in business. Here he meets Choi Suk Hyun (Shin Sung Rok), a hardworking
manager of his mother’s company. In order to make Ki Seo become good, his
mother decides to have Suk Hyun show Ki Seo the ropes, and one of the first
jobs is getting all the land from the inhabitants of Blue Island.
This leads to Young
Shin and Ki Seo meeting again, even having Ki Seo living with them, but things
get more complicated as the father of Young Shins child happens to be Suk Hyun…
This is one of the few
gems hidden beneath all the idol/pretty actors, with a good storyline and good
actors, though it has one big problem: it is way too conservative. I’m not
talking bed scenes or kisses, but conservative in the typical Korean drama. And
what I mean by typical is the early 20s late 90s Korean drama with the loud
boyfriend, jealous ex, overprotective male personas and most of all the long
annoying stars with the hints of happy smiles (that take over 2 minutes of the
screen time). I was hoping by the end it would change a bit, but it didn’t, so
a little disappointed me.
On the other hand it
has some things that I really like: Young Shin (I know she seems typical but I
really found her more amazing than the rest of the female cast), the second
female lead actually being nice and likeable and lastly the entire theme of the
drama - social discrimination. Me likey! They really go beyond the casual
discrimination, by actually talking about fear of the unknown, which by the way
is so awesome.
Jang Hyuk and Shin
Sung Rok are kind of the dull elements here, not because of bad acting but because
I dislike ridiculous “jealous in love” characters. So yeah, whatever. All in
all a good drama.
☆☆☆½ / 3½ out of 5 stars
♥♥♥½ / 3½ out of 5
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